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Lisa Tamsin Faulkner (born 18 February 1972) is an English actress and television personality. Faulkner was educated at Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston upon Thames. When Faulkner was 16, her mother, Julie, died of cancer. She has discussed in several interviews her feelings about her mother's death. At the age of 16, she was approached by a modelling scout while she was waiting on the platform of a London tube station. She was not playing the banjo or busking as many people think, something which she referred to as "a myth" when asked about it on ITV1's Daily Cooks Challenge. In 1992, she... MORE

Lisa Tamsin Faulkner (born 18 February 1972) is an English actress and television personality. Faulkner was educated at Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston upon Thames. When Faulkner was 16, her mother, Julie, died of cancer. She has discussed in several interviews her feelings about her mother's death. At the age of 16, she was approached by a modelling scout while she was waiting on the platform of a London tube station. She was not playing the banjo or busking as many people think, something which she referred to as "a myth" when asked about it on ITV1's Daily Cooks Challenge. In 1992, she made her first acting appearance in The Lover, starring Jane March. At age 21, Lisa played the part of Alison Dangerfield in the British TV drama Dangerfield. She also starred in the 1994 British film A Feast at Midnight. In 1996 she appeared in And The Beat Goes On. Two years later, she played Louise Hope in the Channel 4 soap Brookside. Between 1998 and 2001, she played Dr Victoria Merrick on Holby City, before her character was stabbed to death in her own home by the father of a patient whose life she couldn't save. In the TV show Spooks, her character Helen Flynn suffered a particularly LESS